Ministries try so hard to solve potential problems, they don't realise that their actions create a plethora of new ones. And curiously, those problems didn't exist prior to the 'well intentioned but misguided solution'

To pay for the 'baby boomers' qualifying for N Z Super, over the next 10-20 years.From memory, its expected that there will be more people either on benefit, or super, than will be working. Kind of elephant in the room stuff. Somewhat surprised the entitlement age for NZ Super hasn't been raised. Put simply, we don't have enough workers to subsidise the benefit/ pension.